Copy/pasted from the NYT article. Note that the article also claims that tear gas and rubber bullets were used to clear the area, which is a lie. The park police state otherwise...
“”The country’s top military official apologized on Thursday for taking part in President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square for a photo op after authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the area of peaceful protesters.
“I should not have been there,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a prerecorded video commencement address to National Defense University. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
His first public remarks since Mr. Trump’s photo op, in which federal authorities attacked peaceful protesters so that the president could hold up a Bible in front of St. John’s Church, are certain to anger the White House, where Mr. Trump has spent the days since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis taking increasingly tougher stances against the growing movement for change across the country.””
I’m not sure how the NYT turns “I should not have been there...” into an apology, but I guess with editorial license, any statement can be twisted and misconstrued to suit a purpose.
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"...Mr. Trump has spent the days since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis taking increasingly tougher stances against the growing movement for change across the country."
These f'n lying liars.
Thanks for the NYT article.
Millie is either an ahole or the NYT twisted what he said (we know they lie), or both.
PS - why would Millie even TALK to the NYT??? Who was he talking to, where did this statement come from?
C&Ping my answer to Melian above:
He does not apologize, actually; he just says “I should not have been there”. And his reason is that it created a certain perception about the military’s involvement in dealing with the rioters.
Hoping this is just some sort of feint by the Trump team.